Put salt and baking soda in your drain...and THIS will Happen! (1930s Plumbing Trick)

It’s a Tuesday night, and your kitchen sink is pooling with greasy water. Before you spend $250 on a professional plumber or pour expensive chemicals down the line, look to your pantry. In this video, 74-year-old Missouri handyman Hal Perkins shares an honest, 1930s-era fix for slow kitchen drains that costs just 79 cents. Using a simple dry mix of baking soda and coarse salt followed by hot water, Hal reveals how to melt away the fats and oils that choke your pipes. He breaks down the "plain arithmetic" on his legal pad, explaining exactly why this method works and—more importantly—the common mistakes that make it fail. You’ll learn essential safety rules for modern PVC pipes and how to tell when a clog requires mechanical help. Stop being owned by the store and recover the thrifty, self-reliant skills of the careful old folks who never paid for what they could do themselves.